The immediate symtoms are that a lot of apps "freeze up" and apparently nothing can be read from the drive in question including top, and the log doesnt get written (hence my hand written error message). The problem goes away after reboot and apparently the disk error goes away too.

The problem has existed for me across two different harddrives, which are apparently both okay. I reinstalled because I thought the drive was getting old, but now its running fine under windows apparently.

Im using a 2.6.0 kernel and the harddrive is connected to a nvidia nforce2 based MSI k7n2-delta-ISLR motherboard (nvidia controller).

Thanks, but the case is that the hard drive is down and that I need some other way._________________Aspiring to once become a great geek
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"Tachikoma": AMD TB 1300 Mhz, ECS-K7S5A (SIS 735), (noname) RADEON 8500, Hercules Gametheater XP, Pinnacle PCTV pro
"Pyonpyon": Athlon 2500+ Barton, MSI K7N2-delta-ISLR (Nforce2), Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro

Well I suggest running the command from the Live CD and then placing the text file on a floppy and cut and pasting its contents. Also be sure your boot partition had the notail option that can be a real bitch sometimes.